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Love To Surf? You’ll Love This Pass For Butterfly Guard
The further you travel along your Brazilian jiu-jitsu path, the more butterfly guard you’ll encounter. It’s a guard t...
A Surprise Triangle Choke from Butterfly Guard
This transition from butterfly guard to triangle choke is one of my new favourite techniques.
I learned it from BJJ b...
Getting the Underhook in BJJ
Getting the underhook in the guard, especially in positions like the Butterfly guard and the Half guard, is incredibl...
How To Do The ‘Imanari Roll’
The Imanari roll is absolutely one of the coolest submission attacks out there.
It’s unorthodox, it’s fancy, but unli...
How to Train BJJ with an Injured Neck
Necks are delicate things. Seven small stacked cervical vertebrae protecting all the nerves in your spinal cord and ...
An Easy and Effective Guard Retention Drill
There are many guard retention techniques you can use to stop someone from passing your guard, but just like any othe...
What’s The Best Way To Pass Butterfly Guard?
Butterfly guard is a deceptively hard guard to pass. Sure, it looks easy. After all, the person in guard only has tw...
Attacking The Butterfly Guard With The Godai Choke
Maybe you know how to pass a butterfly guard. But why just pass when you can submit, too? In this video, viewers lear...
5 Submissions From Butterfly Guard That You’re Missing From Your Game
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On Starting Sparring from the Knees…
A reader writes: Hi Stephan, I’ve been doing BJJ for about 6 months and am wondering if you have any advice about wha...
3 Fixes for Sore Fingers in BJJ
So I got a question the other day from someone looking for advice about the pain and inflammation they have in their ...
Your Open Guard Options vs. Standing Opponents
If you end up on the bottom with your opponent standing up and detached from you then be prepared for a very frantic ...